(43) Popular narratives give representation to the often
unpresentable social forces that constrain and enable us at any given time.
"Presenting the
Unpresentable: The Sublime", traduzido por Lisa Liebmann, Artforum April, 20(8): pp.
But Derrida insists, "Deconstruction is justice." (108) He also clarifies that incalculable and
unpresentable justice, which is the experience of absolute alterity, commands calculation.
Among them we find indeterminacy, fragmentation ("indeterminacy often follows from fragmentation"), the
unpresentable, irony, and hybridization.
And as the stinging blows of the whip continued to rain over his face, the humiliation and rage the young musician was beginning to feel slowly became directed, not at the handsome pampered face shouting obscenities at him (so close he could smell the baron's expensive cologne and garlicky breath) but at himself for being so desperately poor, so irrevocably uncouth and
unpresentable, while this monster of a baron no doubt had just finished dining on oysters and snails in one of the plush private parlors of the Cafe Royale, while frolicking obscenely on a velvet divan between the cunning perfumed thighs of a royal whore--
otherwise
unpresentable, (158) may have a mental or physical disability
As a result all apps are similar and, to say the least of it, looks
unpresentable. Dozens of such similar services are on the market now.
Essentially, the argument is that Modernist narratives are permeated by assumptions about dichotomies such as private and public, nomadic and sedimentary, dynamic and static, far and near, hidden and visible, presentable and
unpresentable, which rather than emphasising the sense of loss and dejection, bring to light the "aesthetic and semantic possibilities of what happens in the process of moving" (xv).
Although it would be difficult to ever holistically present every facet of the California dairy industry, as Stormer (2004) suggests, there is aesthetic and argumentative merit in attempting to present the otherwise
unpresentable. Watkins' large collection of landscape photographs, for example, effectively moved audiences to praise and preserve American wilderness (DeLuca & Demo, 2000).
I shall call modern that art which presents the fact that the
unpresentable exists.
"Representation and the
Unpresentable." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 15.2 (2001): 49-67.
If the essence of the human is
unpresentable in terms of essential predicates ('what one is') but consists in the sheer facticity of its existence ('that one is'), then the form of bios proper to the human is indeed its own zoe, whose facticity is no longer the negated foundation of bios but rather its entire content, there being no other form, essence, task, or identity imposed on it.